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libs/graph/example/matching_example.cpp

//=======================================================================
// Copyright (c) 2005 Aaron Windsor
//
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
// (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
//
//=======================================================================
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp>
#include <cassert>

#include <boost/graph/max_cardinality_matching.hpp>

using namespace boost;

typedef adjacency_list< vecS, vecS, undirectedS > my_graph;

int main()
{

    // Create the following graph: (it'll look better when output
    // to the terminal in a fixed width font...)

    const int n_vertices = 18;

    std::vector< std::string > ascii_graph;

    ascii_graph.push_back("           0       1---2       3       ");
    ascii_graph.push_back("            \\     /     \\     /        ");
    ascii_graph.push_back("             4---5       6---7         ");
    ascii_graph.push_back("             |   |       |   |         ");
    ascii_graph.push_back("             8---9      10---11        ");
    ascii_graph.push_back("            /     \\     /     \\        ");
    ascii_graph.push_back("     12   13      14---15      16   17 ");

    // It has a perfect matching of size 8. There are two isolated
    // vertices that we'll use later...

    my_graph g(n_vertices);

    // our vertices are stored in a vector, so we can refer to vertices
    // by integers in the range 0..15

    add_edge(1, 2, g);
    add_edge(0, 4, g);
    add_edge(1, 5, g);
    add_edge(2, 6, g);
    add_edge(3, 7, g);
    add_edge(4, 5, g);
    add_edge(6, 7, g);
    add_edge(4, 8, g);
    add_edge(5, 9, g);
    add_edge(6, 10, g);
    add_edge(7, 11, g);
    add_edge(8, 9, g);
    add_edge(10, 11, g);
    add_edge(8, 13, g);
    add_edge(9, 14, g);
    add_edge(10, 15, g);
    add_edge(11, 16, g);
    add_edge(14, 15, g);

    std::vector< graph_traits< my_graph >::vertex_descriptor > mate(n_vertices);

    // find the maximum cardinality matching. we'll use a checked version
    // of the algorithm, which takes a little longer than the unchecked
    // version, but has the advantage that it will return "false" if the
    // matching returned is not actually a maximum cardinality matching
    // in the graph.

    bool success = checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching(g, &mate[0]);
    assert(success);

    std::cout << "In the following graph:" << std::endl << std::endl;

    for (std::vector< std::string >::iterator itr = ascii_graph.begin();
         itr != ascii_graph.end(); ++itr)
        std::cout << *itr << std::endl;

    std::cout << std::endl
              << "Found a matching of size " << matching_size(g, &mate[0])
              << std::endl;

    std::cout << "The matching is:" << std::endl;

    graph_traits< my_graph >::vertex_iterator vi, vi_end;
    for (boost::tie(vi, vi_end) = vertices(g); vi != vi_end; ++vi)
        if (mate[*vi] != graph_traits< my_graph >::null_vertex()
            && *vi < mate[*vi])
            std::cout << "{" << *vi << ", " << mate[*vi] << "}" << std::endl;

    std::cout << std::endl;

    // now we'll add two edges, and the perfect matching has size 9

    ascii_graph.pop_back();
    ascii_graph.push_back("     12---13      14---15      16---17 ");

    add_edge(12, 13, g);
    add_edge(16, 17, g);

    success = checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching(g, &mate[0]);
    assert(success);

    std::cout << "In the following graph:" << std::endl << std::endl;

    for (std::vector< std::string >::iterator itr = ascii_graph.begin();
         itr != ascii_graph.end(); ++itr)
        std::cout << *itr << std::endl;

    std::cout << std::endl
              << "Found a matching of size " << matching_size(g, &mate[0])
              << std::endl;

    std::cout << "The matching is:" << std::endl;

    for (boost::tie(vi, vi_end) = vertices(g); vi != vi_end; ++vi)
        if (mate[*vi] != graph_traits< my_graph >::null_vertex()
            && *vi < mate[*vi])
            std::cout << "{" << *vi << ", " << mate[*vi] << "}" << std::endl;

    return 0;
}